Band 5 Specialist Implant Dental Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Specialist Implant Dental Nurse to join the Restorative 2 nursing team at Birmingham Dental Hospital. You will hold a post qualification in Implant Nursing and evidence CPD and Implant Case Log.

Working days are Wednesday and Thursday with hours 08:00–20:00, across BDH and CDS sites to support service needs. You will provide chair side assistance and admin support.

Qualifications

• Post qualification in Implant Nursing and evidence CPD and Implant Case Log.
• Be able to evidence CPD and Implant Case Log.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
• Carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.
• Stock control/rotation and the ordering of dental consumables as required.

Skills

Implant Nursing

Education

Post qualification in Implant Nursing

Job description

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS and want to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care?

We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and hard working Band 5 Specialist Implant Dental Nurse to join the Restorative 2 nursing team at Birmingham Dental Hospital.

The post holder will need to hold a post qualification in Implant Nursing and should be able to evidence CPD and Implant Case Log.

Working Days: Wednesday and Thursday

The post holder is expected to work between Monday to Saturday between the hours of 08:00 to 20:00 to support the service need.

To work flexibly within a dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required.

Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Dental Hospital and within our outreach sites.

To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.

To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.

• Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.
• To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
• To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
• To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
• To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions as required.
• To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician.
• To assist the Senior Dental Nurse in the smooth running of the Dental service.
• To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
• To support and supervise all apprentice nurses, undergraduate groups.
• Stock control/rotation and the ordering of dental consumables as required from appropriate suppliers.

Be Part Of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part Of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zara Smith Job title: Dental Nurse Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0121 466 5000